Bruce Barcott Quotes
“In the deep forests of Mount Rainier, the sun doesn’t rise, it leaks in thin bands through the trees.”
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
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I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.
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I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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Genius always finds itself a century too early.
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Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent.
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For years Don Imus was just – boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.
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I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.
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As humans, we all want our own island. Of course, the truth is, we're never going to get it.
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I normally wear Stuart Weitzman or Kors Michael Kors.
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Europe and European identity is rooted in Christianity.
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America, I know the road will be long, but I know we can get there. Yes, we will stumble, but I know we’ll get back up. That’s how a movement happens. That’s how history bends. That's how when somebody is faint of heart, somebody else brings them along and says, come on, we’re marching.
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A young man with dark circles under his eyes was propping himself up against a penny-in-the-slot machine. An undertaker, passing at that moment, would have looked at this young man sharply, scenting business. So would a buzzard.
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Weather in Afghanistan, 2000 degrees and cloudy. What the fuck am I doing? I'm stuck on the weather channel. AHHH!
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The pencil moved prophetic: together now men read In the fair book of nature, and find the hope they need. The wreath woven by the river is by the seaside worn, And one of fate's best arrows to its due mark is borne.
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Dennis surfed. I couldn't surf. I never learned how.
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I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man’s destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth... I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish.
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Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army.
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When you're an established name, you know that a children's book will have a pretty good chance of getting picked up. Like Madonna. It's not that I had this great idea. Actually, in my case, it was a great idea.
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I couldn't wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again.
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Why did I hesitate to put all this glory of the sun on my canvas?
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I love making movies, but there's nothing like being in front of an audience.
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“In the deep forests of Mount Rainier, the sun doesn’t rise, it leaks in thin bands through the trees.”
